This article provides a review of recent literature in economics on the effect of mass media
on politics. The focus is on the welfare effects of mass media. I also discuss the likely …

As authoritarian governments around the world develop sophisticated technologies for
controlling information, many observers have predicted that these controls would be …

In this paper, we document basic facts regarding public debates about controversial political
issues on Chinese social media. Our documentation is based on a dataset of 13.2 billion …

Protest event analysis is an important method for the study of collective action and social
movements and typically draws on traditional media reports as the data source. We …

Introduction Censorship has a long history in China, extending from the efforts of Emperor
Qin to burn Confucian texts in the third century BCE to the control of traditional broadcast …

Updated to reflect recent global developments, the second edition of Globalization: A Basic
Text presents an up-to-date introduction to major trends and topics relating to globalization …

Since the Coronavirus health emergency was declared, many are the fake news that have
circulated around this topic, including rumours, conspiracy theories and myths. According to …

The proliferation of social media and digital technologies has made it necessary for
governments to expand their focus beyond propaganda content in order to disseminate …

An increasing number of scholars have established that authoritarian regimes employ quasi-
democratic institutions as part of their efforts to retain power. However, we know little about …

While studies have documented the difference between political and public discussions on
Chinese social media platforms, few have interrogated and compared how state and social …